Chaul is a historic town located in the Raigad district of Maharashtra, India.
Ptolemy in his Geography of India calls the town Symullla or Timulla.
[1][2] The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea mentions that it was a market south of Kalliena (Calliana).
Even Portuguese explorer and writer Duarte Barbosa conceded the fame of Chaul for cotton materials.
[4] The city was annexed by the Maratha Empire in 1740, being ruled by the Angre family and then was conquered from them by the British EIC.